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The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment (MAPAMA), has published the bulletin of foreign trade of olive oil corresponding to the 2016/17 campaign, which shows a new record of turnover, with a value that exceeds in more than 600 million € the previous campaign.
The Protected Designation of Origin “Priego de Córdoba” has received the first prizes of the 2017/18 campaign, after being awarded some of its oils in The Best Products Awards of the Natural Spaces of Andalusia.
At its annual meeting of the Sectoral Council of Olive Oil, held on October 31th in Jaén, Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España has made an estimate of olive oil harvest, which will be over 1,096,900 tons, which means a decrease of 14.7% with respect to last season.
The II Business Agro Business on the olive sector, “Olivar: quality and innovation for international markets”, held today in Cordoba, was inaugurated with the interventions of the mayor of Cordoba, Isabel Ambrosio Palos, and the Andalusian Minister of Agriculture, Rodrigo Sánchez Haro, who has highlighted the enormous opportunity offered by digitization through e-commerce so that Andalusian olive oil reaches more distant countries.
The Andalusian Councilor for Agriculture, Rodrigo Sánchez Haro will inaugurate next Wednesday, October 25th, the 2nd Tertulia Business Agro on the olive sector, “Olivar: quality and innovation for international markets”. This event is organized by SIETE Agromarketing and e-Comercio Agrario (ECA) together with ASAJA Córdoba, the cooperative group DCOOP, and the strategic collaboration of Extenda-Andalusian Agency for Foreign Promotion and the Regional Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development of Andalusia (CAPDER).
On October 25th, the Royal Botanic Garden of the capital of Cordoba will host the II Tertulia Business Agro on the olive sector, “Olivar: quality and innovation for international markets”. This event, organized by e-Commerce Agrarian (ECA) and SIETE Agromarketing, a communication and consulting agency specialized in the agro-food sector, hopes to repeat the success of the call and participation of its previous edition, celebrated last November 15th in Toledo , thanks to a careful program that includes the interventions of leading experts and professionals in the sector.
The Pro Olivo Association, which is made up of Peruvian olive processing and exporting olive and table processing companies, has recently created the Management Group of the Olive Innovation System, whose main purpose is to promote innovation within the olive sector. The establishment of this Management Group has been possible thanks to the support of the INNOVATE PERU Ministerial Program and once the Pro Olivo Association has successfully concluded the “Technological Innovation Agenda for the Technical and Commercial Development of the Olive Tree”.
In the Sierra Mágina mountain range, in the south-central zone of the province of Jaén, a unique extra virgin olive oil is produced from the 61,000 hectares of olive groves protected by the Protected Denomination of Origin Sierra Mágina.
Socialist Europarlamentarians have called on the European Commission (EC) to counteract the “anti-dumping” complaint against Spanish exports of table olives in the United States.
Agro-alimentary cooperatives of Granada and the main cooperatives of this province impel a new integrative project to successfully tackle new markets.
The I International Symposium of the olive grove in hedge, Olint, recently celebrated by the University of Córdoba (UCO), Agromillora and Olint, technical magazine of Agromillora Iberia, represented a golden opportunity to obtain a more direct and close knowledge of the reality of this crop Super-intensive. An event that attracted more than 600 professionals from the sector, who gathered in the Aula Magna of the Campus Rabanales of the UCO.
Cooperativa Agro-alimentarias Castilla-La Mancha estimates a decrease of olive oil production in this autonomous community of 10% compared to this campaign.
Socialist MEP Clara Aguilera has called for greater legal certainty so that the olive oil sector can carry out “collective storage”, which involves withdrawing part of the oil from the market when there is overproduction. Aguilera has raised this demand for more legal guarantees during a joint appearance of Agriculture Commissars, Phil Hogan, and Competition, Margrethe Vestager in the Committee on Agriculture of the European Parliament.
With an initial estimate of around 3 million tonnes, world olive oil consumption for the 2016/17 wine year will exceed production by 13%, according to data from the International Olive Oil Council (IOC). This number consolidates a trend started ten years ago.
The first harvest oil from the Castilian-La Mancha mill García de la Cruz, located in the municipality of Toledo, Madridejos, has won the prize “Grand Prestige Gold”, one of the highest awards in the contest Terraolivo, Jerusalem.
Fertiberia Andalucia has presented its new range of fertilizers, Fertiberia Advance, at the fair of Samples of the Southern Countryside of Extremadura (FECSUR), which has held its XXXVI edition from 25th to 28th May, in the town of Azuaga (Badajoz). Formulated from the most innovative techniques, among the products Advance stands out the formula NPK (S) Olivo Plus 17-18-10 with boron, iron and zinc, which offers a perfect balance of nutrients suitable for the needs of the olive grove and that improves the quality and production of the oil.
